Sofia  waited nervously for the baroness who reappeared with the verdict that the king wanted to make a big deal out of it and said that "your father would understand."  Sofia looked at her dumbfounded. She really had no idea what to do about this. She could watch her husband hang or she could marry some old geezer.  She decided that she couldn't let him hang that she would rather be miserable.  She stared right through them as they brought her bridal gown and accessories in. 


Kendrick arrived at the castle, in the highest room in the highest part of it. He had planned to enter the opposite way, but when he arrived too many knights were walking around. He had no choice but to go up to avoid detection. Kendrick made sure he had all of his bearings in order, then proceeded downwards through the castle. As he was still a knight at heart, he remembered his way around the castle.


Kendrick stopped when he found the throne room. He peeked inside and saw the king sitting on his throne, yelling and generally make life miserable. He grasped the sword on his back, tempted to end the king right there and then.


Niesha watched kendrick go, wanting to follow, she looked back to Zach, [color=f7941d]"We can't not do anything"[/color] Yet whatever she thought of, she didn't think would work. She glanced back outside, and she figured they weren't doing anything by staying there. There were troubles going to the castle, she knew, but that didn't matter. 


[color=f7941d]"Lets go, there has to be something we can do"[/color]


Zach looked at Niesha a moment [color=6ecff6]. "We can't just go and interrupt a wedding being thrown by the king."[/color] He smiled and stood up grabbing her shawl and handing it to her. "[color=6ecff6]However, we can take the priest who married us to the wedding and have him interrupt. It would be his duty to. Come on let's go get him.[/color]"  A few minutes later they were on their way with the book they had all signed when they got married.


The baroness  made a fuss over Sofia. She had made this dress was all she could think of. It fit perfectly but oddly enough she never would have expected to have made a wedding dress for herself that she would really wish she wasn't wearing. "[color=f6989d]Are you sure there is not any other gift I could accept?"[/color] The baroness nodded. "[color=f6989d]That's enough! You should be grateful that you are marrying above your station.[/color]"  Sofia would have been thrilled if she weren't already married to someone else. She sighed hopelessly and trudged out like the showpony they were making her be.


Kendrick released his grasp on his sword. He knew he couldnt kill the King, because the only way to regain his honor was to expose the Kings wrongdoings publicly. An assassination would only cement his situation.


Kendrick moved passed the throne room, but hid behind furniture that lavished the halls as more people started to appear. He dared to sneak a peak, and saw Sofia in her wedding dress. She looked miserable, and he wished there was something he could without making her an exile as well.


Niesha didn't know if the priests word would mean much to the king. Yet it was worth a try, so she nodded. She glanced about them as they walked, frowning slightly in thought. [color=f7941d]"How will we do this, so that we don't reveal who Kendrick is?"[/color] She glanced up at the castle as they drew nearer, wondering how they would get in.


Zach spoke to the guards and they were allowed in. "[color=6ecff6]I told them my sister was being wed  shortly to the "Count" according to the guard.[/color]" He pulled her along with him to the appropriate hall. It was huge and as he was getting his bearings he swallowed hard as his sister was being walked down the aisle. 


Sofia was looking around trying to find her escape. She was quickly becoming frantic in her need to leave. Sofia jerked her hand back from the squire who was walking her down the aisle. He stopped and she stopped and bent forewards trying to find it. She was quite a sight standing in the middle of the aisle lifting her dress up trying to find her short sword. She finally found it and she pulled it on the surprised squire.[color=f6989d] "I'll be leaving now." [/color]She looked around as guards started to walk towards her. Zach saw her and his jaw hit the floor. He tried to get her attention. 


She drew on the guard and she went to kick him but her gown was so huge that she could barely move appropriately. The Count turned and looked at his unwilling bride and for the first time Niesha had the chance to see who it was.


Niesha felt like her heart was in her throat as she saw Sofia draw her sword, and she very nearly went out, but as the man whom she figured was meant to be the man the King was marrying to Sofia, her breath caught. 


She froze, unable to believe what she saw. [color=f7941d]"Zach..."[/color] Despite everything, her voice was full of panic and fear. She couldn't look away from her father, wondering what the chances were of this. And why? Her father had a heir. 


Swallowing, she reached out to Zach, wanting to comfort herself, [color=f7941d]"...Its...its my f-father"[/color] She couldn't let this happen, not to Sofia, and she seemed to find some strength, taking a step forward.


Sofia pulled on the thread that she had loosened earlier and the entire bottom of the gown came off except for the slip she wore underneath and she pushed the knight down and he fell into the other knight next to him. Zach grabbed Niesha's hand and mumbled, "[color=6ecff6]Let's get out of here.[/color]"


Sofia told the baroness.[color=f6989d] "I tried to tell you I can not get married, I already am married."[/color] She quickly bowed to the King and ran off back down the aisle. The king was furious that the baroness would set a match with a married woman for his Count. Most of the crowd was trying not to laugh out loud but there were so many giggles that the room erupted in laughter. 


Sofia wearing a slip and atop half of a wedding dress jumped onto the first horse she came upon and swore to return it. With her hair bollowing out behind her she was quite the sight.


A few moments later Zach and Niesha came upon her. The horse had thrown her. Apparently he didn't like being kicked so hard and she had gone flying. She was literally laughing and rubbing her backside." He sword was not far away and she grabbed it.


[color=6ecff6]"Well dear sister I think you can safely say that you no longer have a job at the castle and they might hang you if they catch you.[/color]"  Sofia spit the hay out of her mouth. "[color=f6989d]What does it matter at this point?" [/color]

 

Niesha knew that there would be trouble, perhaps more so with Sofia's announcement that she was already married. So getting out there, especially with her father there, was fine by her. She just hoped that they weren't seen, but the fact that her father was here, put her ill at ease. Out in the cool air, Niesha felt better. Coming across Sofia, she didn't know what to say. 


She glanced back behind them, to see if anyone had followed Sofia's mad charge out there, [color=f7941d]"It matters because that was my father and he doesn't take kindly to slights to his honor"[/color] 


Sofia stood and took off the top of the dress and tossed it on the ground now only in the slip and carrying her sword and barefoot. She had lost the shoes in the castle. Zach turned to his wife and pulled her shawl up over her hair.[color=6ecff6] "Your father? Seriously? We need to get you out of here and back home.[/color]" Zach said quite concerned that her father was almost his brother in law.


Sofia ran past them and she got back to the house and put on some travelling clothes, packed and pulled out her money that she had been saving up."[color=f6989d]I'm thinking it might be a good time to see the other parts of the world. At least for a while...If Kendrick comes back tell him I didn't give him up."[/color] Sofia went around to the back of the house where her horse was tied up and grabbed her and brought her forward. She hugged her brother and Niesha. "[color=f6989d]Be safe. I love you guys.[/color]" She climbed up on her horse and left the town headed west.


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